[Pkg-dspam-misc] Changes to dspam.conf template

Rudolf Weeber rudolf at faveve.uni-stuttgart.de
Thu Nov 3 10:30:49 UTC 2005


Hi,
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:36:17AM +0100, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote:
> Rudolf Weeber wrote:
> > Hi,
> > * Change "opt out" to "opt in"
> >   Dspam is set to "train everything" by default. At uni | made the
> >   experience, that users do not realize, that, if they don't complain
> >   about a spam mail, it will be learned a sinnocent, and they get their
> >   dictionary ruined. With the opt in setting, users have to enable dpsam
> >   in the webfrontend (or using dspam_admin) explicitly, so the training
> >   starts, when they already have concerned themselves with the way the
> >   filter works (hopefully)
> Ok, so you mean that the default is to not learn mail as spam ?
> 
> I don't think we need to touch this option. IMO most users don't want to
> bother with the spam learning stuff and will let do the sysadmin to
> create optimized spam learning rules. For the users who want to have the
> control can always use the web frontend.
I was unclear there. I wasn't concerned with training modes.
If "opt out" is set, from the moment, dspam is installed into the
MTA, it will learn all mail, the users dont complain about, as innocent.
So if a user isn't awere of how to use dspam from the first moment on,
he'll ruin his dictionary.
And the bad thing is: Dspam doesn't yet have a functino for the user to
reset his dictionary. The admin needs to delete the user's ruined
dictionayr himself by a bunch of mysql commands (that are only
documented in the mailing list archive...)

> > * spamAction is set to "tag" instead "quarantaine". by default
> >   Users meight be very surprised, when part of their mail doesn't end up
> >   in ther mailbox. They might not even know, where to look for it. So
> >   IMHO it is better, to let users explicitly activate the quarantaine.
> > 
> I don't understand completely:
> Preference "spamAction=quarantine", that's what is in the default
> src/dspam.conf.in -> You want to change that too tag ?
> 
> If so, I completely agree.
Yes, that's what I ment.

CU, Rudolf



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